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Subject: Re: 1.7.0-48: [BUG] Passing characters above 128 from bash command 	line
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On Jun  4 00:03, IWAMURO Motonori wrote:
> 2009/6/3 Corinna Vinschen
> > What's left as questionable is the LANG=C default case.  Due to the
> > discussion from the last month we now use UTF-8 as default encoding,
> > because it's the only encoding which covers all (valid) characters.
> > Sure, we could also convert the command line using the current ANSI
> > codepage as Windows does it when calling CreateProcessA in this case.
> >
> > Maybe we should do that for testing?  Anybody having a strong opinion
> > here?

> How about the addition of the setting of the locale environment
> variable (like LANG) to the Cygwin installer?

I'm sorry, but I don't understand how that's connected to the behaviour
of the Cygwin DLL.  Setup.exe is an entirely different beast.


Corinna

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